An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world’s biggest museum go from here?
After a heist and the departure of its boss, the French institution wrestles with water leaks, strikes and much-criticised plans for a €1bn renovationJust over a year ago, Laurence des Cars, the intellectually brilliant (if famously prickly) former head of the largest and most-visited museum in...
<p>After a heist and the departure of its boss, the French institution wrestles with water leaks, strikes and much-criticised plans for a €1bn renovation</p><p>Just over a year ago, Laurence des Cars, the intellectually brilliant (if famously prickly) former head of the largest and most-visited museum in the world, wrote a somewhat alarming note to her boss, France’s culture minister.</p><p>Des Cars, who on Tuesday <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/24/louvre-president-resigns-jewellery-heist-inquiry-reveals-systemic-failures">resigned as president of the Louvre</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/louvre-museum-leaky-damaged-overcrowded">lamented</a> the advanced state of disrepair of the iconic museum’s buildings and galleries.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/01/an-ugly-year-for-the-louvre-where-does-the-worlds-biggest-museum-go-from-here">Continue reading...</a>
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